Coronavirus (2021) thread

[Didsbury Dave]

I posted last week that I believed the vaccine was outpacing us and got told to cheer up and even patronised that I “must be having a bad week”.

Mother Nature is a magnificent and terrible god. The tide has ultimately turned and we will win this battle through vaccines but it’s going to take a long time and a lot of deaths. There’s a name for what’s going on: best man loses. It happens when any species starts to excessively dominate an ecosystem. We overpopulated the world and thought we were invincible.

 

[marco]

Liverpool is always full of worrying mutations tbf, I wouldn't worry about it

these mutants stole my wheel trims back in 82

 

[roubaixtuesday]

Personally I wouldn’t accept the steam off that regime’s piss even I was paid.

Personally I try to be guided by the facts.

 

[Churchlawtonblue]

Personally I wouldn’t accept the steam off that regime’s piss even I was paid.

Both the Russian and Chinese dictatorships should be ostracised by the western world, we certainly shouldn't be buying anything off these gangsters especially vaccines. We need to ween ourselves off cheap Chinese products for our own good as well as a moral one.

 

[kaz7]

some on here lap up all the negative news stories and dont highlight the positives. The media are to blame and they love a bad news story much more than a positive one. That's why the deaths and positive cases are always highlighted on the news before anything else such as how well we are doing with the vaccine roll out.

You need to read better

 

[nellyonthewing]

Had my 1st AZ jab today. I feel more positive about the outlook now. feel more nervous about Burnley than Covid ..

 

[twosips]

I've been guilty of this too very recently, so I include myself in it, but can we give it a rest with this happy clapper/doom monger stuff? It's utterly tiring. Shaming anyone shares anything that isn't positive, or doesn't have a cheery view of things, is incredibly unfair. The same goes for the other way around, and once again I include myself in this. I think every single person in this thread wants to read positive news. We all want our lives back. Some handle it better than others, great, but some don't - that's okay too. We're all in different positions. Some have barely any concerns, some have loads. I just hate this 'lol look at who's sharing this' snideyness. It's totally uncalled for and creates nothing more than arguments. If you disagree, just at least engage politely without resorting to digs.

 

[NeilYoungIsBack]

I posted last week that I believed the vaccine was outpacing us and got told to cheer up and even patronised that I “must be having a bad week”.

Mother Nature is a magnificent and terrible god. The tide has ultimately turned and we will win this battle through vaccines but it’s going to take a long time and a lot of deaths. There’s a name for what’s going on: best man loses. It happens when any species starts to excessively dominate an ecosystem. We overpopulated the world and thought we were invincible.

Covid has so far accounted for over 2 million deaths worldwide but in the meantime the global human population has increased by around 80 million

 

[Healdplace]

Personally I try to be guided by the facts.

Me too I trust science to be objective. Political opinion less so.

Not like Russia has anything to gain by creating a vaccine that does not work as it will be the only one most of their people ever get to see.

And at £7 a dose it is also one of the very few many countries can afford to buy.

The Oxford vaccine is in the same category as cheap and a great hope for the majority of the planet outside the richest nations.

I think them combining efforts is to be welcomed not attacked because of a dodgy regime. If we did that we would need to ignore half the world on the occasions they do something useful.

It is possible to be discriminatively critical and in a pandemic that is essential.

 

[sir baconface]

Look at climate change its predominately if we don't do this and don't do that we are on borrowed time and we have the facts to support it.

Very little is done to focus on the benefits to the planet assuming science is predominately in the camp the average surface temperature on the planet is warming.

What does this even mean?